Ethel Pearl Wheatley Brown 1894-1981

BROWN, WHEATLEY

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/4/2012 at 20:29:09

Services for Mrs. Ethel P. Brown, 87, were held Monday, Jan 4, 1982 at the Fuhrman Funeral Home with interment in East Side Cemetery. She died Thursday [December 31, 1981] evening at Holy Family Hospital.

She was born May 26, 1894 at Blue Island, Ill, the daughter of George and Adeline Wheatley. She moved to Spirit Lake at the age of 6 and received her education there. On Feb 20, 1919 she married Harry Brown in the Presbyterian Church at Estherville. They lived one year, in Sherman, Texas and then returned here and farmed northwest of Estherville. They lived on the farm until Mr. Brown's death in 1977. Since that time Mrs. Brown has been a resident of Rosewood Manor.

She was preceded in death by her husband, one son, Verlyn; her parents; one brother and two sisters. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, Jan 5, 1982)